Gil Kirkpatrick of NetPro

Had a nice lunch today with Gil Kirkpatrick, CTO of NetPro.  He's the brains behind a number of products that help enterprises manage Active Directory and other directory services.  They've just released ChangeAuditor that tracks changes to Active Directory and a variety of other network configuration parameters.  Pretty neat stuff.

Gil's also a sailplane pilot and it's always good to get his perspective on flying.  I'm used to flying behind a 250hp fan attached to the airframe, going from point A to point B.  Gil's brand of flying is more about finding the right conditions just to keep you up in the sky - and then staying in them.  While I'm here in sunny California, I'm going to try to get my gilder rating.

We also talked about writing computer books.  Gil wrote the excellent “Active Directory Programming” title published by SAMS.  Looking at the Amazon listing, my book is listed as also being bought by the same readers.  <smile>

NetPro is also producing the Directory Experts Conference this month in Washington DC and again in April in Amsterdam.